Project description
Tools to help first responders help us
First responders are the first to arrive to an emergency. They include the firefighters, police officers and paramedics who take great risks to save people, property or the environment. Whether it’s a small-scale emergency or a devastating disaster, new technologies can give them an edge during a crisis. The EU-funded INGENIOUS project will develop and test a next generation integrated toolkit (NGIT) for collaborative response. This will include tools to keep first responders protected, connected and fully aware of risks and threats during a crisis. This will boost their operational capacities, ensuring rescue operations are carried out safely and efficiently.
Objective
Today’s First Responders (FR) are using technology of the past. During their primary mission of saving lives and preserving society’s safety and security, FRs face a multitude of challenges. In both small scale emergencies and large scale disasters, they often deal with life-threatening situations, hazardous environments, uncharted surroundings and limited awareness. Threats and hazards evolve rapidly, crossing municipalities, regions and nations with speed and ease. Armouring public safety services with all the tools that modern technology has to offer is critical. Such tools holistically enhance their protection and augment their operational capacities, assisting them in saving lives as well as ensuring their safe return from the disaster scene. INGENIOUS will develop, integrate, test, deploy and validate a Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) for Collaborative Response, which ensures high level of Protection & Augmented Operational Capacity to respond to the disaster scene. This will comprise a multitude of the tools and services required: 1) for enabling protection of the FRs with respect to their health, safety and security; 2) for enhancing their operational capacities by offering them with means to conduct various response tasks and missions boosted with autonomy, automation, precise positioning, optimal utilisation of available resources and upgraded awareness and sense-making; 3) for allowing shared response across FR teams and disciplines by augmenting their field of view, information sharing and communications between teams and with victims. The NGIT armours the FRs at all fronts. The NGIT will be provided at the service of the FRs for extensive testing and validation in the framework of a rich Training, Testing and Validation Programme – of Lab Tests (LSTs), Small-Scale Field Tests (SSTs) and Full-Scale Field Validations (FSXs) – towards powering the FR of the future being fully aware, fully connected and fully integrated.
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7522 NB Enschede
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51147 Koln
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92350 Le Plessis Robinson
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20600 Eibar Guipuzcoa
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118 54 ATHENS
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7034 Trondheim
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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164 90 Stockholm
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141 22 IRAKLEIO
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2072 Saint-Blaise
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1040 Wien
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1060 Lefkosia
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08002 Barcelona
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14564 Nea Kifisia
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37666 POHANG
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01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz
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75012 Paris
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136 25 Haninge
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46569 HUNXE
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BT5 6LE Belfast
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175 63 ATHINA
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Dundalk Louth
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SW1X 7QA London
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